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Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.

Laozi

The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.
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Accomplish Doing Master Nothing
If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.
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Forever Heart Letting Surround
Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.
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Enough Know Misfortune
Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.
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Animal Empty Everything Fall Nature
The world’s beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.
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Beginning Children Mother Taoism
The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.
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Mourn Triumph Weapon
Quarrel with a friend – and you are both wrong.
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Friendship Quarrel Wrong
A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.
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Care Clay Form Space Vessel
Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.
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Inspirational Problem Simple Small
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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Business Limited Wisdom Wise
A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.
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Multitudes Taoism Tiresome
Why is the sea king of a hundred streams? Because it lies below them… If the sage would guide the people, he must serve with humility. If he would lead them, he must follow behind. In this way when the sage rules, the people will not feel oppressed.
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Below Humility King Lying People
If you have really attained wholeness, everything will flock to you.
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Everything Flock Mindfulness Wholeness
An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.
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Accomplish Action Inspirational Integral
The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience.
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Demand Depend Reach Taoism Thing Way
Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
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Mastery Principles Superior Triumph

Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.

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